Bannon tore into Musk, revealing another fissure in the MAGA world over Trump's highly touted Stargate project.

The White House broke its days-long silence about SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Friday, as questions swirled about whether Musk had rankled President Donald Trump when he publicly bashed Stargate, the Trump administration's first major tech initiative.

Trump was joined by SoftBank Group Corp.’s Masayoshi Son, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Oracle Corp.’s Larry Ellison at the White House to announce the venture, dubbed Stargate, which they said would deploy $100 billion immediately with the goal of eventually spending $500 billion for the construction of data centers and physical campuses.

President Donald Trump unveiled this program in collaboration with key figures from the tech industry, including SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison

Elon Musk criticises OpenAI and SoftBank's $500 billion Stargate Project for AI infrastructure, doubting their financial capabilities. The initiative involves major tech companies like Oracle, MGX, Arm,

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has expressed doubts about the financial viability of the USD 500 billion Stargate AI Project, a collaboration between OpenAI and SoftBank Group. Musk questioned SoftBank's ability to fund the massive initiative,

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced Stargate, a new entity that plans to invest $500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure with the goal of making advancements in industries like health care and positioning the U.S. as the leader in AI.

Mr. Trump had claimed the A.I. announcement as an early trophy, taking credit for the companies’ decision to spend up to $500 billion building data centers.

Elon Musk had sharp words for a private-sector partnership touted this week by the Trump administration to hasten the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure. “They don’t actually have the money,” Musk said of two of the participants in the $500 billion initiative, OpenAI and SoftBank, on his social media site X.

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015, when he was convicted of multiple charges, including the distribution of narcotics.

SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI as part of a broader partnership that could see the Japanese conglomerate spend more than $40

SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $25 billion in OpenAI, which would make it the company’s biggest backer, CNBC has confirmed.